Hardly humble: Michelle Obama's childhood home in Chicago
Posted on 03/23/2016 4:08:07 PM PDT by bgill
"I actually grew up in a neighborhood just like this – it was on the South Side of Chicago," the First Lady said. "A place where people worked hard to support their families, and where families were close and loving and had strong values."
Obama spoke about growing up in a very small apartment with her brother and her parents. She said she shared a room with her brother that was divided by a wooden partition. “My room was so small that, when I held out my arms I could almost touch both walls at the same time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
See the rather nice large childhood home where her family lived on the top floor - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-517824/Mrs-O-The-truth-Michelle-Obamas-working-class-credentials.html
Her father had "a well-paid engineering job at Chicago's water plant. Even before overtime, he earned $42,686 - 25 per cent more than High School teachers at the time."
"Michelle was from a middle-class family," confirmed one of her long-time friends, Angela Acree. "She came from a regular family. They had a nice home. It wasn't a mansion, but it was just fine. It was a decent neighbourhood." The 2008 article continues with a quote from her brother, Craig, "We had this game where we set up two rooms and played 'Office'." So, two play rooms but a teeny tiny shared bedroom? Nope, sorry, that dog don't hunt.
In Cuba, she told how everyone put her down but she rose above it and got an education. She and her brother both attended Princeton.
If only the rest of us had such a hard life.
By the time she leaves the WH, she’ll be telling of growing up homeless and living out of dumpsters.
And she will be FLAT BROKE just like the Clintons
Her message is that they can marry their way to success like she did?
“I actually grew up in a neighborhood just like this – it was on the South Side of Chicago,” the First Lady said. “A place where people worked hard to support their families, and where families were close and loving and had strong values.”
The south side and family values and all that are not usually linked together as she has done.
Even back in her day, the south side was the ghetto, a place of rampant poverty, both material poverty and as important, a poverty of values. Hard to believe she says this was a place of strong values.
Historical average # staff for US First Ladies: 1
# of staff for Michelle: TWENTY SIX..!!!
Most by very, very far in US history.
Here’s Michelle’s message. Get a job on hospital board. Marry a new US senator. Have him hide a grant to your hospital in the budget and double your salary. Have him become president and travel and spend exorbitant amounts of taxpayer money on travel even though the country is bankrupt and while you’re at it try to control what school kids get to eat for lunch. Make racist and unpatriotic comments when you’re first lady. Then every democrat will love you.
Michelle Robinson’s father was lieutenant of Jesse Jackson, and she spent a lot of time in the Jackson home. There were definitely a lot of upper class blacks there then.
I suppose the message is lying your butt off pays.
Well, it was a place of strong Democrat party machine values— as described in the UK Daily Mail article posted in #2 above here. Her father worked for the political Daley machine, and was rewarded with a $42K a year waterworks engineering job (not a maintenance man) by the machine. The house pictured in the article is a Craftsman style solid home anyone today would be happy to be living in, and was in a professional’s black neighborhood near the hospital... not the “hood”.
So... those values— party activism and reward. The story of her life— right down to Val Jarrett getting her the hospital system lawyer job specializing in re-directing poor patients to other hospitals, to prevent payouts for free care. 300K plus a year.
It was a nice home. If the upstairs was completely finished, there would be ample room for two bedrooms and then some.
Did they live there the whole time Michelle was growing up?
The sooner this ugly to the bone woman disappears from the stage, the better the nation will be.
That's because that lady is a dude, baby! Yeahhhh!
Hell, after I got out of the service I had an apartment that if i got a.....sexually excited moment, I didn’t have room enough to throw a hot dog in the microwave.
`Nobody knows, de trubble I seen ...’
America’s First Victim
..My room was so small that, when I held out my arms I could almost touch both walls at the same time...
Just one look at a photo of Mooch shows she has very long arms.
Now I work hard to support YOUR family, YOUR junkets and YOUR luxury vacations to all points extravagant around the world, with YOU spending 100s of millions of dollars over these past 7 years. Now who is the master and who is the slave?
Her book should be called: The Story Of Queen Kong
Hardly humble: Michelle Obama's childhood home in Chicago
That right there was scary. But funny.
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